As we have seen, the classic example for the learning event “Content Elaboration” can be the creation of a concept map. 

Below, we offer a brief lunge on this topic and some tools to integrate it into your teaching practice. 

Novak introduced and developed concept maps in 1972 during his research program at Cornell University, which aimed to describe changes in children's knowledge of science (Novak & Musonda, 1991). The result was a tool that was useful for scientific research but also for learning in general, because it allowed information and its relationships to be visualized in a reworked form.

According to Novak (Novak et al, 2006) to construct a concept map it is useful to provide for several iterations, useful for adding new concepts and relationships or modifying existing ones: a concept map is never finished.

To learn more about the characteristics of concept maps identified by Novak, see the resource at this link.

Again, tools prove to be a valuable ally available to the teacher. Among others, to integrate concept maps into your teaching activities we suggest:

Jamboard (Jamboard - Google Workspace Admin Help)

Miro (Miro | The Innovation Workspace)

Mural (Mural's visual work platform | Mural)

Cmap (Cmap | CmapTools)